TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF PLATES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- The wounded storyteller -- Framing the research -- Chapter synopsis -- CHAPTER ONE - SETTING THE SCENE -- Geographies of disability -- Cross-species encounters -- Animal geographies -- Summary -- CHAPTER TWO - THINKING EMOTION AND AFFECT THROUGH HORSE-HUMAN RELATIONS -- From Centaurs to Bodies without Organs -- Geographies of emotion and affect -- Exploring power relationships between horses and humans: Domination or co-operation? -- Summary -- CHAPTER THREE - HORSES FOR COURSES -- Research Design -- Methodological strategies -- Research sites -- Analysis -- Summary -- CHAPTER FOUR - LEARNING TO BE AFFECTED BY HORSES -- Attending a Riding School -- Beginner riders and the stratified body -- Dismantling the body and learning to be affected -- Recognising horses as emotional beings -- Summary -- CHAPTER FIVE - POWER DYNAMICS OF HORSE-HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS -- Affective relations between horses -- Modalities of instrumental power -- Associational power (to act) -- Summary -- CHAPTER SIX - WHAT CIRCULATES ON THE HORSE-RIDER BWO? -- Connective energies -- The Horse-Rider Body-without-Organs -- The emotional capture of affect -- Summary -- CHAPTER SEVEN - TRAVELLING ACROSS BORDERS -- Disability identities within "Riding for the Disabled Association" (RDA) groups -- reproducing the body as organism -- Lines of flight from the disabled organism -- Communication and (dis)empowerment -- crossing borders through reading affect and emotion -- Being with horses -- Summary -- CHAPTER EIGHT - CONCLUDING DISCUSSION -- Themes running through the book -- Future research -- Personal reflections -- Summary -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.